Karnataka Solidarity Convention Condemns SIR, Signals Broad Resistance Karnataka witnessed a rare and emphatic show of unity on April 23, as civil society groups, people’s organisations, and nearly all secular…
The latest global assessment by Amnesty International, The State of the World’s Human Rights 2026, presents a stark picture of a world where democratic norms, accountability, and protections for vulnerable…
The Telangana socio-economic, Educational, Employment, political and Caste survey complete report was released by the Telangana Government on 15 April, 2026. The Government also released two volumes of Independent Expert…
A series of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed multiple Palestinians, including children and police personnel, amid ongoing violations of the ceasefire that took effect in October. In…
The latest wave of Israeli attacks on Lebanon marks one of the most intense and expansive military escalations in the country in recent years, raising urgent questions about the viability…
The latest joint military assault by the United States and Israel on Iran marks a decisive rupture in an already volatile region. What was once a landscape of uneasy deterrence…
In a significant intervention that underscores the growing global concern over corporate-led resource extraction in India, a group of United Nations Special Rapporteurs has issued a strongly worded communication to…
Even as a so-called ceasefire is formally in place, Gaza continues to bleed. The latest daily report released by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza lays bare the hollowness…
Six-month-old Yousef Omar Abu Hamala died in his family’s tent in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, succumbing to the harsh cold that continues to claim young lives in the…
In the early hours of Saturday, January 3, 2026, a dramatic escalation shook Venezuela and raised alarms across the hemisphere. Multiple loud explosions were heard in Caracas and other parts…
Here is a legal challenge made against SIR by PUCL Collective, Coimbatore. You can download the full document here This legal review critically examines the Election Commission of India’s (ECI)…
An open letter, addressed to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) written by former judges, senior advocates, and members of the Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR) conveys their…
The memorandum submitted by the National Federation of Handlooms and Handicrafts (NFHH), dated 3 December 2025, is addressed to the Hon’ble Union Finance Minister, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman. It urges the…
Countercurrents.org is organising a webinar in honour of K.P Sasi well-known filmmaker and social activist and an Associate Editor of Countercurrents.org on June 22, 2025. The topic is “Israel: The…
Israeli forces killed 31 starved civilians and injured 200 more on Wednesday at an alleged ‘aid distribution point’ near the Israeli-created ‘Netzarim corridor’, according to medical sources in Gaza. Victims…
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Allahabad High Court challenging two government orders mandating summer workshops on Ramayana and Vedas in schools across Uttar Pradesh. The…
The second webinar organised by Countercurrents.org in memory of K.P.Sasi, well-known filmmaker and social activist will take place May 18th 6 PM Indian Standard Time (IST). The topic of the…
A massive crowd gathered in Davangere on April 26, under the auspices of Eddelu Karnataka (Wake Up Karnataka) and launched a campaign to protect the Constitution. The event marked the…
Twenty-six people were killed and several others were injured as terrorists opened fire on tourists in Pahalgam yesterday, in the worst terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir in recent times.…
The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, hours after he appeared at an Easter mass and appealed for an end to Israel's war on the Gaza Strip.…
‘Politics of Language and Language of Politics’ is the first in a series of webinars in memory of K.P.Sasi, well-known filmmaker and social activist. In this webinar Prof. G.N.Devy, Prof.…
Countercurrents.org is organising a webinar (Zoom) in honour of K.P.Sasi, film maker, cartoonist, social activist on April 15th, 2025 at 6 PM India Time. Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82292221179?pwd=O7A90T6JBcaeq7l5VHqycxRfsoxaIy.1 Meeting ID: 822…
The UN Human Rights Council has reappointed Francesca Albanese as Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories for another three years resisting a coordinated campaign to remove her from her…
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you—then you eat them." —Adapted for the Protein Revolution Introduction India's marginalized communities have been denied not just…
At least 38 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza in the past 24 hours.The Health Ministry in Gaza says the bodies of at least 39 people, including…
At least 174 Palestinian children in Gaza have been killed in Israeli airstrikes since Tuesday morning, marking one of the “largest one-day death tolls since the beginning of the genocide.”…
UNICEF, the UN agency for children, reported that one million children in Gaza are “struggling to survive” due to Israel’s blockade on all humanitarian aid into the enclave. “One Million children are…
Netanyahu's office announced Sunday that Israel has stopped humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip following the expiration of the prisoner-ceasefire deal. An Israeli official stated that the decision was…
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order authorising economic and travel sanctions against people who work on International Criminal Court (ICC) investigations of US citizens or US allies,…
President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would like Jordan, Egypt, and other Arab nations to increase the number of Palestinian refugees they accept from the Gaza Strip, displacing…
Gaza Civil Defense reports that 123 Gazan citizens in the Gaza Strip have been killed since the announcement of the ceasefire agreement last Wednesday until 10:00 AM today, Saturday. The…
As Gazans wait for ceasefire to come into effect on Sunday 81 people were killed in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile Israel's cabinet is delaying its meeting to approve the…
A wave of Israeli air attacks hit Yemen’s main airport just as the World Health Organization’s director-general said he was about to board a flight there, wounding one of the…
Five journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in the vicinity of a hospital in central Gaza. The journalists from the Al-Quds Today channel were covering events near al-Awda…
The spokesman for UN chief Antonio Guterres told AlJazeera Israel is continuing to refuse the delivery of aid to the northern Gaza Strip, amid an ongoing Israeli siege and intense…
A dire environmental disaster looms over Gaza, as the streets of the northern Strip become graveyards for countless Palestinians killed in relentless Israeli airstrikes, warned Mohammed Abu Afash, Director of…
An Israeli attack on Palestinian security guards escorting a humanitarian aid shipment in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 12 people and injured dozens. Medics and local residents told…
One of the most outstanding philosophers and guides of India's Dalit-Bahujan Movement, V T Rajshekar, founding Editor of Dalit Voice passed away at the age of 93, in Mangaluru, Karnataka.…
Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, director of Kamal Adwan hospital told Al Jazeera that Israel is blocking the entry of food, water, medical staff and materials destined for the north. He…
The author and thinker Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd alleged that "left liberals joining hands with fundamentalist Muslim youth" are curtailing his freedom of expression. He further alleged that "leftists think that…
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd was disinvited from 'Hortus' Arts and Literary Festival hosted by Malayala Manorama in Kozhikode Kerala from November 1-3. Kancha Ilaiah alleges that this was due to an…
India was not among the more than 100 United Nations member states that signed a new letter of support for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres after Israel's foreign minister declared him…
The Israeli military launched a wave of deadly airstrikes in eastern and southern Lebanon on Monday, the latest escalatory step toward a full-blown war following Israel's mass detonations of electronic devices that…
After a concerted national campaign - The NFDC / NMIC, Mumbai HQ, called off the Israel Film Festival slated to be held in Mumbai on the 21st-22nd of August. India…
Sheikh Hasina has quit as Bangladesh Prime Minister and fled the country. Bangladesh Army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman said that the Army will form an interim government and has appealed to…
Jeremy Corbyn MP, British politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020 congratulated social activists in India on the election…
After ruling for 10 years India's right-wing Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to make a decisive majority in India's 543 member parliament. As per the latest trends BJP…
Admiral L. Ramdas (90) passed away this morning at the Military Hospital in Secunderabad. He stood up for peace, justice and communal harmony. He was a champion of India-Pakistan peace.…
This is an updated version of the “People’s Manifesto for Ecological Democracy” that Countercurrents.org published on 15th August 2020, where we set out a broad framework on how India should…
The Supreme Court of India struck down the Electoral Bonds Scheme of 2017, holding it to be unconstitutional. While pronouncing the unanimous verdict of the five-bench constitutional bench, Chief Justice…
Exactly half of Americans say Israel has “gone too far” in its military response in Gaza, according to a new survey. The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs…
More than 800 civil servants from the U.S., the UK, and the European Union released a statement on Friday criticizing their governments' support of Israel in its war in Gaza, warning…
The U.S. launched airstrikes against militias in Syria and Iraq as retaliation for the drone attack that killed three U.S. soldiers, pulling the Biden administration even deeper into the conflict…
Parts of U.S. media are laying off hundreds of journalists. The Messenger, a U.S. online news site that promoted itself to deliver unbiased and trusted news, abruptly shut down Wednesday…
Israel has ignored the ruling by the U.N.'s top court last week by killing hundreds more civilians in a matter of days in Gaza, South Africa’s foreign minister said Wednesday, adding that…
A death row prisoner used his final words to say “humanity had taken a step backwards” before he was killed in a prolonged suffocation condemned as torture. Kenneth Smith shook and writhed…
Researchers estimated there may have been more than 64,500 pregnancies resulting from rape in the 14 states that have enacted near-total abortion bans since Roe v. Wade was overturned in…
The military governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have announced their exit from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), claiming the regional bloc has become a tool…
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history took an irreversible step forward earlier this month when crews opened a 16-foot-wide tunnel in the base of the Iron Gate Dam…
Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Writing in the journal Nature, UC Santa Barbara researchers present the largest assessment of groundwater levels around the world, spanning nearly…
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